ODI – Ian Birrell https://ianbirrell.com Columnist & Foreign Correspondent Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:25:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://ianbirrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-ian-birrell-favicon-32x32.png ODI – Ian Birrell https://ianbirrell.com 32 32 Scandal underpinned by cosy network of the arrogant and ambitious https://ianbirrell.com/scandal-underpinned-by-cosy-network-of-the-arrogant-and-ambitious/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:56:01 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=4121 Obesity: Africa’s new crisis https://ianbirrell.com/obesity-africas-new-crisis/ Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:19:08 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=2394 South Africa’s obesity crisis: the shape of things to come? https://ianbirrell.com/south-africas-obesity-crisis-the-shape-of-things-to-come/ Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:10:36 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=2379 World hunger has fallen. Now what do we do about the planet’s expanding waistline? https://ianbirrell.com/world-hunger-has-dropped-greatly-but-what-do-we-do-about-the-planets-expanding-waistline/ Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:49:29 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=2108 Hideous hypocrisy of the charity fat cats https://ianbirrell.com/hideous-hypocrisy-of-the-charity-fat-cats/ Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:25:53 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=1978